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On the path to expanding cervical cancer screening in Kenya

On the path to expanding cervical cancer screening in Kenya

Kenya piloted a community-based cervical cancer screening in 2021…
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World Health Organization deploys Emergency Medical Teams to support cholera outbreak response in Malawi

As part of the continue
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Indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticides is helping decrease the population of Phlebotomus argentipes sand flies that transmit Leishmaniasis.

WHO publishes two landmark documents on leishmaniasis

Departmental news - Geneva - Leishmania parasites are…
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Meeting attendees posing for a group photo

Twelve African countries commit to end AIDS among children by 2030

Dar es Salaam - Today, twelve (12) African countries of the…
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Mauritius is moving a step ahead in its fight against cancer by extending vaccination against Human Papillomavirus to boys aged 9 to 15 years

Port Louis. 31 January 2023.  Mauritius is moving a step ahead…
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Victim living with Elephantiasis

“People living with Elephantiatis are often stigmatized” – patient 

Abuja, 31 January, 2023 - Betty Livingstone, (not her real name), 22…
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Young Man

Emmanuel finds his feet as Rwanda steps up fight against Neglected Tropical Diseases

In the face of debilitating diseases like podoconiosis, one young…
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A health worker administers a measles vaccination during the reactive measles vaccination campaign in Yirol West County, Lakes State

Reducing the risk of measles spread in South Sudan

In the morning hours of Thursday (19 January), Mr Adut Bullen Kot,…
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